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How Will You Measure Your Life?

This is an article by Clayton Christenson, a professor at Harvard Business School. Most thought-provoking and powerful…

Editor’s Note: When the members of the class of 2010 entered business school, the economy was strong and their post-graduation ambitions could be limitless. Just a few weeks later, the economy went into a tailspin. They’ve spent the past two years recalibrating their worldview and their definition of success.

The students seem highly aware of how the world has changed (as the sampling of views in this article shows). In the spring, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them-but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply them to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life. Though Christensen’s thinking comes from his deep religious faith, we believe that these are strategies anyone can use. And so we asked him to share them with the readers of HBR…

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The New Manager: Top 3 Challenges

You have been the company hero, the person everyone comes to when they want to complain about the boss. You listen to their woes, offer advice and  accept their gratitude for the wisdom you have dispensed. Sitting at your desk,  feet stretched up on the desk, you feel expansive. Work is easy. It’s a good life. You think to yourself “These people love me. I guess it’s only natural. I am after all a natural leader. It’s just a question of time before the company is going to give me the unit manager’s job”.

The next day, the CEO calls you over and tells you you have the unit manager’s job…

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Employee Motivation – 3 Common Myths

The topic of employee motivation is of great significance to managers and supervisors. There are many theories of motivation and any manager wishing to put together a simple practical model of employee motivation has to go through tons of information and misinformation. To complicate matters, there are several myths that confuse in particular new managers or supervisors. This article will help in clearing up some of these myths.

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HR Should Put Itself Out of Business

An article by Chris Ferdinandi published in 2010 that rings really true today as well

Not entirely out of business, of course. But we should put our current way of doing things out of business. Then, we can make way for a newer, awesomer HR. I think the future of human resources is five or six specialized functions (there may be overlap with a few of these)…

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